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  • WNBA collective bargaining agreement deadline passes without new deal

    Source: USA Today

    “Many deadlines related to WNBA collective bargaining agreement have come and gone as negotiations between the league and players’ union have stretched across months, but none are more important than Tuesday. The league said Tuesday, March 10, is the date a term sheet for a new CBA must be completed in order to avoid a delay in the start of the 2026 season, which is scheduled to tip off May 8. There’s been movement from both sides as the deadline approached as the WNBA and WNBPA swapped counterproposals over the weekend. But, as of Tuesday morning, there is no deal.” (03/10/26)

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2026/03/10/wnba-cba-deadline-what-we-know/89074624007/

  • Cuba: Regime pharmacy accused of dispensing expired HIV drugs

    Source: United Press International

    “Patients living with HIV in Havana reported receiving expired antiretroviral medications at state pharmacies as the health system faces supply shortages and difficulties monitoring patients’ conditions. Activist Evelyn Pineda, who lives with HIV along with her 10-year-old son, told Radio Martí that medications are often unavailable and that when they do arrive, ‘you go to pick them up and they are expired.’ … Workers at the state pharmacy located on Aranguren Street in Guanabacoa said the drugs are part of international donations intended for antiretroviral treatment. Staff said they can be consumed ‘as long as they remain sealed and the medication does not change color.'” (03/10/26)

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/03/10/latam-Cuba-expired-HIV-drugs/6171773158153/


  • Social Media’s Down Side: No Fresh Starts

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “As humans, we’ve always found ourselves haunted by our past mistakes, both as a personal matter of guilt, shame, or embarrassment and as a communal matter of reputation (up to and including potential ostracism). On the latter front, I’m old enough — and I’m not THAT old — to remember a time when anyone but the most public of public figures could … move to another county and start over, among new neighbors who neither knew of, nor had any reason to suspect, their prior violations of social norms. Clean slates, and if they nailed the ‘sin no more’ part of ‘go and sin no more,’ new and better lives. … That kind of thing can’t really happen today … and for the last 20 years or so we’ve been watching what happens instead.” (03/10/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20440

  • Prostitution Should Be Decriminalized

    Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
    by Laurence M Vance

    “A bill (SB26-097) was introduced in the second regular session of the Colorado General Assembly last month to decriminalize adult commercial sexual activity. … This is a bill that libertarians can unequivocally support. But not because libertarians think that prostitution is wholesome, good, and harmless, or because they don’t think that prostitution is immoral, shameful, and potentially dangerous. Libertarians simply believe that what consenting adults do on their own property, or on the property of others with permission, is none of the government’s business, none of the church’s business, and none of any individual’s business as long as their actions don’t infringe upon the personal or property rights of others. This is still true even if what consenting adults do is immoral, and even if the majority of Americans don’t approve of what they are doing.” (03/10/26)

    https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/prostitution-should-be-decriminalized/

  • I Think I Can Explain Trump’s Theory of Trade

    Source: Bet On It
    by Bryan Caplan

    “Donald Trump likes exports and foreign investment, and laments imports and trade deficits. Most economists find this a baffling bundle of preferences — and the more they know about international trade, the more baffled they are. Never mind the truism that the whole point of exports is to buy imports. Doesn’t Trump know that getting more foreign investment raises trade deficits by definition? How confused can you get? While I agree that Trump is terribly wrong about international trade, there’s a big difference between being wrong and being confused. While I doubt I’m ready to pass an Ideological Turing Test for Trumpian trade theory, I recently had a weird epiphany on the topic. After said epiphany, I feel capable of articulating roughly what Trump is thinking.” (03/10/26)

    https://www.betonit.ai/p/i-think-i-can-explain-trumps-theory

  • Interview With America’s Exiled Speech Dissident, Dimitri Simes

    Source: Racket News
    by Matt Taibbi

    “Dimitri Simes defected to the U.S. in the seventies and was a proud American for five decades, until he was criminally charged with a Soviet-style offense: being a journalist.” (03/10/26)

    https://www.racket.news/p/interview-with-americas-exiled-speech

  • The return-to-the-office trend backfires

    Source: The Hill
    by Gleb Tsipursky

    “Many business leaders think that a stricter return-to-office policy will cause a surge in productivity. But in reality, the data tell a different story. Across practitioner reports and peer-reviewed research, including a new report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity, organizations that commit to highly flexible models, including remote-first, report strong output, healthier engagement, and faster growth than mandate-driven peers. The newest practitioner evidence should give leaders confidence. In the institute’s Remote-First Organizations report, most leaders in remote-first firms say productivity remains high. A sizable share report that it is very high, even though the majority of these companies avoid invasive monitoring of employees. The research frames remote-first as a deliberate operating model anchored in trust, clarity and well-designed touchpoints, not a stopgap. Independent national data aligns with these practitioner insights.” (03/10/26)

    https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/

  • The Urgent Search for an Alternative World Order

    Source: The Nation
    by Katrina vanden Heuvel

    “The Nation opposes Trump’s latest war, as do most Americans. But we are concerned that the response of many commentators to the Trump catastrophe is to hope for a return to a failed old order — a system of ‘rules’ and strategies so unpopular that voters have already rejected them. That naïve longing ignores the need for this country to take a new look at its place in the world.” (03/10/26)

    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/alternative-foreign-policy-trump-wars/

  • The Soft Disinformation Contagion

    Source: Quillette
    by Jorge Iniesta Cases

    “We live in a paradoxical informational landscape. Never before have citizens had access to such an abundance of data, expert commentary, real-time analysis, and historical context. The digital age promised a ‘Great Clarification,’ where the democratisation of information would serve as a universal solvent for ignorance. But despite this unprecedented availability, it has rarely been so difficult to form a coherent understanding of what is actually happening in the world. The problem is not ignorance in the classical sense. The contemporary public is not uninformed; on the contrary, it is hyper-informed.” (03/10/26)

    https://quillette.com/2026/03/10/the-soft-disinformation-contagion-psychology-social-media-politics/

  • Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback

    Source: Washington Monthly
    by Bill Scher

    “Bombing Iran may be the easy part. What hawks refuse to reckon with is everything that comes next.” (03/10/26)

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/10/iran-hawks-forget-history/

  • Our Long Road to War With Iran

    Source: American Greatness
    by Victor Davis Hanson

    “Until last year, for some 46 years, Iran enjoyed a North Korea-like reputation in the heart of the Middle East: always unpredictable, reckless, dangerous, inevitably to be nuclear, self-destructive, and nihilistic. All that said, was it really ever all that formidable? The mullahs came into power after the removal of the Shah and, subsequently, the interim secular socialists. They did so by taking American hostages, murdering opponents, executing former supporters, and transforming the most secular and modern of the Middle East Muslim nations into the most medieval that routinely hung homosexuals, adulterers, and almost anyone who questioned the authority of the ayatollahs. In other words, these were gruesome people, but they didn’t necessarily have a competent military.” (03/10/26)

    https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/10/our-long-road-to-war-with-iran/

  • Why the neutral interest rate cannot be established

    Source: Cobden Centre
    by Dr. Frank Shostak

    “Most commentators are of the view that what prevents the attainment of price stability is the deviation of the policy interest rate such as the federal funds rate from the neutral interest rate also known as the natural interest rate. The natural interest rate, it is held, is the one that is consistent with stable prices and a balanced economy. What is required then is that Fed policy makers successfully direct the federal funds rate towards the natural interest rate. … How is one to implement this framework of thinking? The main problem here is that the natural interest rate cannot be observed. How can one tell whether the market interest rate is above or below the natural interest rate?” (03/10/26)

    https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/03/why-the-neutral-interest-rate-cannot-be-established/